Frampol, Poland

The Frampol Memorial Book
A Memorial Book of a Center of Jewish Life Destroyed by the Nazis
Published at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary (1941-1942) after
The First Slaughter of the Jews of Frampol
(Frampol, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer Frampol

David Sztokfisz, Editor

Published in Tel Aviv 1966

English Translation Prepared and Published by

Jacob Solomon Berger

Mahwah, New Jersey, USA 2024

Acknowledgments

Our sincere appreciation to Jacob Solomon Berger who has kindly donated
his original book to JewishGen for online presentation

Translation Editor: Erica S. Goldman-Brodie

This is a translation from: Sefer Frampol
ed. David Sztokfisz, Frampol book, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1966

Notes:

The complete translation of this book is also available here: The Frampol Memorial Book

The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Frampol

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The History of the Shtetl	Joseph Milner	1
Fifty Years Ago	Avraham Elbaum ז”ל	8
A Night in Frampol	Mekhl Ehrter ז”ל	12
How I Put Out the Fire	Abba Bekher ז”ל	13
My Little Shtetl of Frampol	Shlomo Kleidman	15
Light and Darkness in Frampol	Moshe Lichtfeld	28
A Shtetl with Distinguished Folk as Well	Tamar Grossman-Jaegerman (Gafar)	61
Memories	hleh Hertzberg	63
A Clutch of Memories	Tova Mantel	69
Commerce in Frampol		69
Frampol Piety		69
The Destruction of Frampol		70
A Reminder	Itta Szeffer	70
Zionism and the Halutz Movement in the Shtetl	Shlomo Frieling	71
Chapter I		71
Chapter II		73
Chapter III		73
Chapter IV		75
Chapter V		76
Training Activity of HeHalutz	Abraham-Yitzhak Hoff	78
The Shtetl as I Remember It	Yekhezkiel Frieling	79
Frampol in the Yiddish Literature		79
Parties and Societies		81
HeHalutz Ha Tza‘ir		82
The Extermination		83
The ‘Yavneh’ School	Dvora Mantrag-Zitrinbaum	86
Berisz Dinburt, the Community Head	Mikhleh Hertzberg	91
The Jewish Land Leaser	Abba Bekher	91
The Activists, Personalities and Type in Frampol		92
R’ Nota, The Rebbe’s Son-in-Law		92
R’ Shmuel-Joseph Kestenbaum		93
R’ Akiva Meir, The Melamed and Teacher		94
R’ Leibusz שו”ב, the Composer of Frampol		94
Yekk’l Chmiel’s, the Town Wagon Driver, and His Wife Esther		98
Dark Shlomo – Who Invited Guests		100
R’ Moshe Hochrad		101
R’ Abraham-Eliezer ben Menachem-David Lichtfeld		102
Yeshayeh’leh the Rebbe’s – The Kabbalist		104
Moshe Chana’leh’s Weltczer		106
Yekkl Feldscher (Bendler) and His Wife Reizeh’leh the Midwife		107
R’ Yaakov Kislowicz, the Jewish Soltis		108
The Lamed-Vovnik of Frampol (Pious Yekkl)		109
Yehoshua Levinger, “The Crazy One”		110
Our Working People	Mikhleh Dinburt	112
Blind Shia	Chana Dinburt-Scharf	114
Chaim and Leibusz – The Water Carriers	Abraham Hoff	115
Small Shim’ehleh and Tall Leah		115
The Young Men of Frampol Who Fell in Defense of the Jewish Homeland		116
Yitzhak (Itcheh) Zikhler ז”ל	Yekhezkiel Frieling	116
Abraham Zimmerman ז”ל		117
Israel Rotman ז”ל		117
YIZKOR !	Yekhezkiel Frieling	121
Yet Another Tear...	Lyuba Wyckyn (Lieberbaum)	121
There Once Was a Little Shtetl called Frampol	Mottl Dinburt	122
The First Bomb		123
The Judenrat		124
The Creation of a Ghetto		125
Polish Informants		125
The First Jewish Partisans		126
A Priest Pretends Not to Know...		127
In the Forest		127
We Are Not Secure Even in the Forest		128
The Death of My Brother		129
With Partisans – Jews, Poles, Russians		130
My Experiences in the Forest	Chana Bryk (Buxbaum)	131
The Pole Sobczak Saved Us	Shmuel Mahler	141
How I Hid Twelve Jews	Stanislaw Sobczak	150
“Saint Teresa”	Tema Weinstock (Rotman)	152
In Those Dark Years	Ze’ev Finkelstein	161
Poles Hid Me	Dora Bryk (Kislowicz)	168
Jews of Frampol Battling the Hitlerist Enemy	Abba Ben-Moshe	182
The Days of September 1939		182
The Shtetl is Transferred from Hand-to-Hand		184
Anti-Jewish Decrees		185
The German-Soviet War		186
Bestial Murders		186
Death Draws Near to Frampol...		187
The Death of My Father ז”ל		188
The Tragedy of Goraj		189
The Thought About Resistance		190
The Aktion		191
From One Hideout to Another		193
The Inhuman Person Shows Himself to be Human		196
Out of the Grave		197
To the Partisans		199
The Jewish Settlement in Grajec		200
In the Forest		201
The Partisan Movement Grows		203
On Our Way to the Josephov Forests		205
Back on the Old Base		208
In the Forest Bunker		211
In Kowpak’s Division		213
The List of the Martyrs		216
Necrology		225
The Frampol Émigrés in Israel	Shlomo Frieling	231

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